Chapter 36: Wang Jincai

Zhang Xuan came back from Luo Rucai's side and gathered his generals to prepare for the attack. But seeing Wang Jincai striding out, he knelt on one knee with his hands in fists, and said, "My lord, my subordinates please fight." ”

Wang Jin is a smart person, and a smart person knows what he should do without being urged.

Zhang Xuan thought about it, he commanded four departments, each of which had eight hundred people, and he himself had two or three hundred veterans as his own cronies as personal guards, and among the other departments, there were also many of Zhang Xuan's old departments as officers, and each department was named according to the previous one. Only Wang Jincai's troops are all surrendered, and they are not distressed to be killed. Zhang Xuan laughed at Jiang at the beginning, and someone Jiang made the distinction between the lineage and the collateral too clear. But now I know that how can I not tell the difference, some of them are the children of my cronies who have worked hard with me, and some of them are the enemies who fought with swords before.

"Okay, since the king always has this thought, please ask the king to be the vanguard." Zhang Xuan said.

Wang Jincai said: "Thank you, sir. ”

Wang Jincai immediately went down to prepare, he personally rushed to the front, pushing a shield cart, more than a dozen shield carts lined up, and rushed to the bottom of the camp.

Zhang Xuan came to the trebuchet and said, "Okay, we should also prepare." ”

"Put." A spherical thing flew out, hit a parabola, and smashed heavily into the wall, only to hear a "bang", and the ball shattered into pieces.

This thing is not a stone bullet, Zhang Xuan overnight, where can he get any stone bullet, just use yellow clay to form a circle, and then roast it with fire, it can be regarded as strong, but it can't withstand the power that falls from the sky.

"Put." Zhang Xuan used a branch to calculate on the ground.

This is not accurate at all, because what Zhang Xuan built by himself is not so standard, but a general area can still be calculated. After Zhang Xuan personally set the parameters for each trebuchet, the striking range of these mud bombs was fixed in the wall and the trench in front of the wall, and of course, the mud bombs smashed into the wall from time to time.

"Your Excellency, you can't be here." Li Benshi grabbed Fu Zonglong and said, "This is too dangerous. ”

"Now, where is not dangerous." Fu Zonglong shook him off. Striding up to the wall, at this moment, on the wall, not wide, countless soldiers tried to climb to the wall, no one dared to stand up, and he looked around, and found that not far away there were more than a dozen shield carts are quickly pushing this side. In the distance, there were a few strange things, with long arms, and a group of people were busy working around. Fu Zonglong immediately knew that it was a trebuchet.

On the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty, although artillery was used in large quantities, things like trebuchets had not yet been completely launched out of the battlefield, Fu Zonglong naturally knew, but he had never seen a trebuchet with such a look, after all, Zhang Xuan's trebuchet was designed by himself, and it was built simply on the battlefield because of ugliness, and it was also a thing to make a living.

Fu Zonglong kicked the gunner beside him and said, "Fire." “

The gunner immediately jumped up and aimed the tiger squat cannon at the shield cart that was pushed over, and it was a cannon, and countless iron sand sprayed out dozens of meters away, smashing on the hardwood board on the opposite side like rain, and immediately struck the baffle on it, but this power was like that.

"Boom." There was another loud bang, and the Franc cannon next to Fu Zonglong fired, and it fired live ammunition, this time it was accurate, and it smashed heavily on a shield car, knocking out a long crack in the wooden board, but the baffle still stubbornly blocked the live ammunition.

But the people pushing the cart behind were uncomfortable, the cart had no buffer at all, and the power of the artillery was transmitted along the baffle to the cart and to the people pushing the cart, and four or five people did not even hum, and they vomited blood and fell to the ground and died.

However, this round of artillery is also effective. After all, the hit rate of these direct-aim guns is already very poor.

The trebuchet smashed it again.

Thirty or forty pounds of mud bombs, across a space of several hundred meters, smashed heavily on the wall, below, and even on the wall.

Fu Zonglong was suddenly protected by four or five shields, and a mud bomb smashed on the wall, and it suddenly shattered, and fifty fragments flew out. Fu Zonglong only heard the "knock" on the shield, as if someone was knocking on the door. Several people around him screamed. Two or three people were planted from the wall, and some people were hit by debris on the front door, covering their faces and screaming. There was blood in his hand, and he didn't know where it hit.

Fu Zonglong's heart suddenly burst out, and he said secretly: "Among the thieves, there are still a few capable people. ”

"Boom." Fu Zonglong only felt a tremor under his feet. Almost unable to stand, it turned out that a mud bomb smashed on the wall, Fu Zonglong knew at a glance that the wall could not last long, a crack spread under Fu Zonglong's feet, this wall is not a solid thing, just the wall of a village.

"I'll have to prepare." Fu Zonglong secretly said in his heart: "This walled wall can't stop for long at all. ”

Although Fu Zonglong was secretly surprised that the thieves could actually set up several trebuchets overnight. Luo Rucai and others can hit hundreds of meters against these.

"Bang." A cannonball actually hit it, but it was too off, and it landed dozens of meters away beside Zhang Xuan, rolling to the side, Zhang Xuan's heart was suddenly shocked.

He understood that the trebuchet gradually withdrew from the battlefield because he could not compare with artillery in terms of range, and now Fu Zonglong had no cannons in his hands but only some small cannons, but they could actually hit Zhang Xuan above the range, but the accuracy was too poor, and it was useless.

But sometimes, luck on the battlefield is also a very metaphysical thing.

For example, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty went south, Li Zicheng died at the hands of the villagers, and Zhang Xianzhong was shot to death by a stray arrow in front of the reconnaissance, which is quite metaphysical.

Zhang Xuan wasn't sure if there was a cannonball that metaphysically smashed on him, killing him.

In order to break the wall as soon as possible, Zhang Xuan was unwilling to wait any longer, and immediately ordered to replace the mud bombs and put on the gunpowder bag.

In fact, this thing can't be said to be a gunpowder bag, the accurate description should be said to be a gunpowder jar, which is stuffed with gunpowder, and the outside is tightly stuffed, Zhang Xuan originally wanted to set aside a fuse, ignite it and then launch it, but the craftsman he said said that the fire line is easy to extinguish in mid-air, and they designed a timing device similar to a fire fold, which exploded when it landed.

Several gunpowder jars smashed on the wall, and the gunpowder jars smashed on the wall, bursting in an instant, and a package of gunpowder was revealed, and then exploded. Some gunpowder jars did not smash on the wall, but on the ground of the wall, and exploded in an instant.

After a few rounds of gunpowder jars went down, I didn't know the power of the jar of gunpowder, anyway, I saw the wall of the wall crash to the ground, falling thirty or forty meters of gap.

"Kill." Wang Jincai said loudly. The first one rushed out of the shield cart and rushed in with his own men.

Long planks were reserved for the shield carts, and a few planks smashed on top of the trench, which was a small bridge, and hundreds of soldiers rushed into it.

"Okay." Luo Rucai was overjoyed, patted Zhang Xuan's shoulder and said, "In this battle, you are the first to make a contribution." ”

Li Zicheng broke through Mengjiazhuang in one fell swoop, and Hu Dawei fought twice, while Luo Rucai gnawed hard bones and fought hard with He Renlong, but the harvest was far less than Li Zicheng, and the changes in the strength of the two sides made Luo Rucai a little uneasy, but he didn't show it. But Zhang Xuan's outstanding performance relieved his pressure, and he was naturally overjoyed.

Zhang Xuan was about to be humble, but suddenly heard a series of explosions, Zhang Xuan's face changed suddenly, and it seemed that the war was not as smooth as he imagined. Even if the wall is broken, it is likely not the end of the battle, but the beginning of the battle.

Sure enough, as Zhang Xuan expected, after a while, Wang Jincai retreated, knelt on the ground with a "plop", and said: "My lord, I am incompetent, please forgive me." ”

Zhang Xuan saw that Wang Jincai was covered in blood, and even there was a blood mark on his face, knowing that he had done his best. Zhang Xuan said: "Get up and speak." What the hell is going on? ”

Wang Jincai said: "Fu Du dug a trench and built a low wall within the wall, but it was only chest-high, and all the firearms bows and crossbows were placed behind the low wall. If it weren't for the quick attention of your subordinates, it would have been almost impossible to come to see you. ”